Martin Skarzynski
Capstone Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Platz
2018-05-12
Large epidemiologic studies,
NHANES III collected data on 33,994 participants aged 2 months and older from 1988 to 1994 in the United States, including Interview, Medical Examination, and Laboratory components.
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) linked NHANES III data with mortality data from the National Death Index (NDI).
From the initial pool of participants, we selected 16,404 adult (\(age \geq 18\)) participants who
Among the 16,404 participants, there were 964 cancer deaths and 280,891 total years of follow-up.
The initial publicly available dataset contained 3,544 exposures from the Interview, Medical Examination, Laboratory, and Mortality components.
We obtained the final set of 243 exposures, after removing variables that were
We modified the SAS code provided by NCHS to save the data as comma-separated-value (.csv) files, which are available on FigShare. The SAS code files (.sas) and analogous Jupyter Notebook files (.ipynb) are available on GitHub.
| Name | Median HR | n | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSAGEIR | 1.04 | 2016 | Age in Years |
| HAQ1 | 1.07 | 1415 | How would you describe the condition of your natural teeth (excellent, very good, good, fair or poor)? |
| HAT2 | 1.50 | 384 | In the past month, did you jog or run? |
| HAT16 | 1.67 | 256 | In the past month, did you lift weights? |
| HAB7 | 0.99 | 228 | In the past 12 months, how many times were you in a nursing home? |
| DMAETHNR | 1.14 | 224 | Race/Ethnicity |
| HAK9 | 1.23 | 216 | How many times per night do you usually get up to urinate? |
| HAP2 | 0.81 | 179 | Do you use glasses, contacts, or both? |
| HAT10 | 1.43 | 119 | In the past month, did you do other dancing? |
| HAR1 | 0.63 | 96 | Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes during your entire life? |